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by Thomas URBAIN Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump’s largely Democrat-voting hometown woke up Wednesday breathing a sigh of relief, pleased there were now checks on the president’s power but under few illusions that the political future of America would be any less divided. Having spent two years in denial that the anti-immigration Manhattan tycoon had won top office, many New Yorkers were in a better mood after Tuesday’s midterm […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The man accused of sending mail bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump appeared Monday in Miami federal court, which is taking up his extradition to New York. Cesar Sayoc, 56, appeared before US District Judge Edwin Torres after his arrest Friday in connection with the mailing of at least 15 manila envelopes containing homemade bombs, none of which exploded. With a messy ponytail and dressed in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump’s US Supreme Court nominee finally met with a Democrat on Monday, as Senator Joe Manchin bucked his party and welcomed Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill. The appeals court judge offered smiles but no remarks to reporters as he entered Manchin’s office and left two hours later — the longest of his meetings to date with senators who will decide whether he gets confirmed to the nine-justice bench. […]
by Chris Lefkow Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Democrat Doug Jones was formally declared the winner of the bitterly contested US Senate race in the southern state of Alabama on Thursday, whittling down the Republican majority in the chamber by a crucial seat. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill certified the results of the December 12 special election and dismissed claims of voter fraud by the campaign of the defeated Republican candidate, Roy […]
MONTGOMERY, United States (AFP) — Democrat Doug Jones scored a stunning upset victory Tuesday in a fiercely contested US Senate race in conservative Alabama, defeating a controversial Donald Trump-backed Republican who failed to overcome damaging accusations of sexual misconduct. The Democratic victory in the most contentious US election of 2017, and in one of the reddest of deep South states, marks a bitter blow to the president, who gave his full endorsement to Republican Roy […]
(Reuters) U.S. authorities will investigate on Sunday the violence stemming from a white nationalist rally a day earlier that killed one person, injured more than 30, and challenged U.S. President Donald Trump’s leadership. The unrest in the southern college town presented Trump with a domestic crisis, with many on both left and right criticizing him for waiting too long to address it and then, when he did so, failing to explicitly condemn the white-supremacist marchers […]
FARMVILLE, United States (AFP) — Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence quickly launched attacks on presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on Wednesday (October 4) at a debate between the two vice presidential contenders. “I’ll just say this. We trust Hillary Clinton, my wife and I, and we trust her with the most important thing in our life. We have a son deployed overseas in the Marine Corp right now,” said Kaine in […]
FARMVILLE, United States (AFP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Kaine and Mike Pence launched into their only debate of the campaign Tuesday, immediately clashing on the reputations and experiences of their bosses chasing the White House. Democrat Kaine and Republican Pence squared off to highlight their capabilities as the men who could be a heartbeat away from the presidency, but essentially they were on stage fighting a proxy war for their running mates five weeks […]
by Andrew BEATTY CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump Thursday of breaking the law by violating the US trade embargo with Cuba, slamming her rival as dishonest and willing to put his interests before the country. Clinton said Trump’s business interests in Cuba in the 1990s “appear to violate US law, certainly flout American foreign policy,” as she accused him of misleading American voters. Newsweek earlier reported that Trump hotel […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Ivan Couronne Andrew BEATTY Hillary Clinton sought to show a steady hand and Donald Trump claimed “I told you so” Monday, as a fresh spate of terror attacks prompted markedly different tacks from the dueling White House hopefuls. Fifty days out from the presidential election, a bomb in New York, a mass stabbing in Minnesota and a New Jersey pipe blast injured dozens and put national security center-stage in the […]
(REUTERS) U.S. Republican Donald Trump overhauled his presidential campaign team on Wednesday for the second time in less than two months, hiring the head of a conservative news website to bolster his combative image and try to reverse poor opinion poll numbers. Trump named Steve Bannon, head of the Breitbart News website, as campaign chief executive officer, a new position. He also promoted senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to the post of campaign manager. The […]
